Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-05-09

NEWS sUMmARx. ks
Devastated BY she wind ssovm-Tne
Interstate Commsrcs LAVA Gold
Biooded Murdss.
All the thirteen counties Of the upper
peninsula OF Michigan were devastated
bv the wind stosm OF LAST week. The
| Wind vas straight blast Of from two
Ito ten houps' duration.t Housfs were
unroofed or demolished, unfinished
buildings scattered, and chimneys And
lighthouses Destroyed. Only three fAtnli-
| ties arc reported. but many were -.
yurely injured. 1t 10 estimated that
1.-The dsmsae for the upper pentnsula
will reach 800. 100. including the pine
|stumpsge destroyed.
judge schoonmAter, Of the Inter.
State OommeYcs Comm ission, passed
Through Pittsburg ON Saturday ON the
| way 10 his home In New York. He
said the commission had concluded its
work In the south last Thursday.
While in Memphis the Commissicn had
taken seven hundred pHges Of testi-
mony, embracing all southern roads
| The preponderauce Of this testimony, 4,
| he said, favored . continuation Of the
susper sion OF the "short haul" CLAUSE.
william Slaughter, . wealthy stock
n iser Of Sooorro County, New AexIco,
was arssssinated in tho American Val
| ley on Friday By two men named
Young blood and Adkins. Last year
Slaughter Was = member Of . grand
|jury who indicted Adkins and Young.
blood, among others, for catsls stealipe,
and, 1t IL said, he WAS chiefly instru.
mental in PROCURING TIE indictments.
John Fromer was shot dead by his
wife at Greensburg, indiana, ON SatuI.
|day morning. They had been separated
for short time, because Of Afs, Fro
mer's violent aversion TO two children Of
Fromer by Q former wife. The provo
cation for the shooting WAS Bromer's
refusal to place the two children In q
boarding house and return to his wife.
By the earthquake Of the afternoon
OF the Sd instant 16O persons were killed
ct Batrlspe. in the Mexican State ol
Sonora. At Oputa n persons were
killed. At the time Of the shock vol
canio eruption began In the mountains
near Batrispe. Seismic activity IL re-
ported throughout Mexico. with vol
canic outbreaks near the GautemAlau
border, as we'll ~ In Sonora.
r. Oliver Of Beardsiey, ILL.,, on Sun
/ Cay jumped from . train on the Bur
lin ston railroad at Iowa Point and Wal
drowned. He was frightened by two
confidence men who were working him,
He ran TO the platform, dragging with
him his 10 year.old son. The conduc
tor grabbed the boy In time to save
him. Oliver WAS temporarily insane.
The mystery surrounding the shoot
ing OF Mrs. TArbell, near Elkhorn
Wis, on Saturday night, has beer
cleared By her husbands onfessior
that he did the shooting and ther
wounded himself to avert suspicion
He gave no reason for the crime. 1t Il
thought Mrs. Tarbell will recover.
A heavy thunder storm pasaed over
Pittsburg and Allegheny City ut
Io'clock on Saturday evening. In ALE
gheny City four dwellings and churcl
were struck by lightning, and on tn,
Steubenville pike dwelling wa
wrecked and q woman Iaralyzed b,
the electric fluid.
AT Lancaster, Pa, yesterday, the j jury
In the case Of Mrs. Maria Bell agHins
the PennsylvaniA Railroad Compan,
rendered verdict giving her $500
damages for the loss OF her husband
who was killed on the tracks of tha
company, near LAndisville.
While q crowd of white ard colores
people were v Watching baptism i'm mer
sion at wharf In New Orleans, q rail
ing broke from the pressure, preci pita
ting about so persons into the river
EleveD-two women and nine children
I-are known to be drowned.
Port Budget, aged 81 years. wa
killed In Upton County, Tennessee, q
Friday last, by two neighbors, name,
Wilson and Smith. He had threatene'
to kill them because they had stopped
MIN In whipping his wife, and they an
ticipAted his purpose.
A man named Hopkins has been III
rested at Wichita, Kansas, for q dis
mond robbery committed at Lancaster
Ohio, two years ago. Hopkins ha
been living at Wichita for some time
under an assumed name, and investinl
largely In real estate.
Two hundred Irish. A merican cit
i zsns went down New York Bay yester
day 10 meet William O'Brien, who wa
Iexpected on the Umbrts, but thE
steamer did not arrive. It Is believes
| che will reach her dock this morning.
George Laughlin, colored, about 4
ytars old, was accidentally shot an
Ikilled on Saturday afternoon by Tho
Barnet. The latter was arrested an,
committed to await the action O! til
4ooroner.
1t is reported that en- aqeravate
{epizooty has broken out among th
horses In Warren County, N. j., and
number Of animals have died. Th
disease was introduced by wes:er
horses.
William Patrick, . prominent lawys
OF st. Louis, died there on Saturday {
softening Of the brain. He WAS U. {
Grant.
The canning mill Of the Latin Pc v
der Company, At Moosic, Penna., BILE
up on Saturday afternoon. Josep
Frazer was killed.
All the union m IN employed In tn
les in San Francisco, about ~
IN humber, were discharged on Sat nj
day night.
I'll Killed ON tho Rail,
A negro was killed In a singular wa
on the Georgia Railroad, eight miles frol
Macon last night. He mace o pillow {
, nus coat and lay down between the eros:
.ies and went to sleep. He was arouse